Angela Lansbury’s victim blaming has nothing to do with her age: Teitel

Until recently, 92-year-old actress Angela Lansbury was a millennial icon. She voiced Mrs. Potts in Disney's 1991 production of Beauty and the Beast. She played mystery writer turned small town sleuth, Jessica Fletcher, on the '80s and '90s cable TV show Murder She Wrote. For a lot of North American kids growing up around this time, myself included, Lansbury's voice and gingham-draped figure was familiar, heartwarming, and in the context of Murder She Wrote, an extremely powerful sedative. But Lansbury was also a tastemaker.